[Rpm-metadata] metadata script and sample

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Sat Oct 4 07:34:15 UTC 2003


On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 00:52, John R. Daily wrote:
> At (time_t)1065241052 seth vidal wrote:
> 
> > 
> > > Could the following fields be punted into an RPM specific namespace?
> ...
> > > license
> > Do debian packages not list the license?
> 
> No.
> 

Any particular reason? When I used debian in the past the licensing of
any particular package seemed to be a very important issue on the
mailing lists. I figured licensing would figure prominently in the
package metadata.

> Debian actually does have a url header, which like origin is rarely used.
> This one probably should stay.

ok. cool.

thanks
-sv





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